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Simple and cheap roadblocks
Topic Started: Feb 18 2016, 10:32 PM (255 Views)
Gunbird
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Started dong a Space Marine statue for the central square (for the RT game), managed to completely balls up the weathering so now I have a chalky green popsickle....so that needs to be stripped. In frustration I grabbed one of the wooden cubes on my desk, played with it for a while and then though that instead of making them statue bases for Frostgrave, why not turn them into concrete roadblocks? We do the same thing in our modern day era, and I can't afford resin Jersey barriers so why not use these?

So, lastnight I smeared wallfiller all over 6 of them and let that dry, and this afternoon I sanded them again, not smooth, but leaving a pattern. I used a sponge and added a a grey with a pinkish hue craft paint on all of them, and after that dried a stone grey craft paint, also with a sponge, pushing it into the ridges. Then, using another sponge and a piece of heavy card, I marked all of them with weatherd yellow lines on top. Drilled holes and inserted bent pieces of paperclip and added a wathered down wallfiller to the metal...this creates a beuatiful corroded effect when painted brown and washed. Then some more weathering with a off white sponge for highlights, and right now I'm adding pinwashes with very thinned mud Devlan Mud and Vallejo Dark Grey. This picture is from just before that.

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I'll weather the bottom halves with some darker colours, and then add posters to a few of them I think, and call them done.

I will do a tutorial on these soon, as they are dirt cheap to make and a ultra fast way to get additional cover on the table.
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RavenFeast
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Nicely done!
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tinker
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The sponge technique has been used to good effect!
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mattblackgod
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Great work. I may have to try spongin (pauses for a joke).
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london1662
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Nice idea mate ..... so simple, they look great :yes:

....what size are they?
Edited by london1662, Feb 19 2016, 05:57 PM.
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Gunbird
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Depends on the wood I use! These are 32mm cubes, but I have a few bigger ones and a large bag of 25mm ones. thinking of doing a set of 28mm round dowels either 20mm tall of 30mm tall as I found pics of those types in use.

Making 20 of the 32mm blocks now for a regular customer of mine.
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cheers mate, I love the way you take time to weather you're stuff to give it that 'realistic' look, really cool :pipboy:
Edited by london1662, Feb 19 2016, 11:19 PM.
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